1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (608+ words) Italy has formally acquired the Fran'ois Tomb of Vulci, bringing one of the most important surviving works of Etruscan painting into state ownership after more than a century of public interest in the monument. The acquisition, announced by the Italian…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (854+ words) A Roman hunting mosaic hidden for more than half a century has reemerged in Marsala, Sicily, offering a vivid new look at the artistic life of ancient Lilybaeum, one of the most important cities of Roman Sicily. The rediscovery is…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (924+ words) An ancient game board carved into a marble block at Apollonia ad Rhyndacum in northwestern T'rkiye is offering a rare glimpse into how people spent their leisure time in one of Bithynia's important lakeside cities. The find was examined by…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (993+ words) A new study published in Antiquity has mapped 1, 019. 05 kilometers of water-management features around the Urartian fortress of Argishtikhinili, near Armavir in Armenia. Among them, researchers identified 134. 6 kilometers of potential ancient canals concentrated mainly around the fortress. The discovery suggests that…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago  (693+ words) An Iron Age structure discovered beneath the Main River bank in Aschaffenburg has surprised archaeologists with its age, preservation, and unusual combination of massive oak beams and stonework. The find emerged during construction work for a rain overflow basin north…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago  (739+ words) A few scratched words on a broken ceramic vessel have brought archaeologists unusually close to a named person who lived and worked inside one of Russia's most important monasteries nearly four centuries ago. Fragments of a black-burnished 17th-century vessel were…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (740+ words) Les Guilleteres d'All lies on the northeastern edge of the Cerdanya Valley, a high mountain basin in Catalonia surrounded by peaks rising toward 2, 900 meters. Today, the landscape is marked by eroded ravines, exposed clay and marl, and strange cuts in…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago  (888+ words) More than 5, 000 years ago, the people buried inside Central Europe's great stone tombs were not always members of a single biological family. Some were kin. Others were connected by ties that cannot be read simply through bloodlines. A new ancient…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago  (530+ words) A small bone object from a lakeside palace has opened a rare window into the weapons of the medieval Seljuk world A fragment of bone from the ruins of Kubadabad Palace in central T'rkiye has turned out to be far…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago  (655+ words) Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have uncovered a rare collection of 100 gold jewelry pieces dating back more than 1, 100 years, offering a striking glimpse into wealth, craftsmanship, and trade during the Abbasid era. The discovery was made at the Dariyah archaeological site…...